March 08, 2006

and the nfl looked into the abyss and said....NOPE....WE aint drinking the koolaid. smart men...able to divide by billions and come up with enough for everyone. how unlike baseball.....hockey.......basketball......

i think this is a sad day as a true Cowboy fan I really don't want to support people who can't support themselves. although everyone hates the Yankees as they also hate America's team does it make sense that in this game I should help you to beat me I don't think so the Yankees don't help anyone yet people find ways to beat them. So what it really comes down to is knowing how to spend your own money, and leaving ours alone. I don't give a rat's a-- that the Marlins have to clean house every time they win the world series what we should remember is how well they manage to put the ship back together to be competitive on their own.

As a Cowboys fan, I don't think a money advantage was a key factor in any of their Super Bowl wins, nor has it kept them from being America's Most Average Team for a decade. If revenue sharing is communism, aren't you also against the draft? The whole system is an artificial one arranged for competitive purposes.

I love that the Bills owner abstained because the proposal was complicated and he didn't really understand it. Do people in Buffalo like this guy? man, that's funny. This guy is too old to be functioning. If he was a horse, they'd have put him out to pasture years ago. By the way, I'm confused as to what makes a team large or small revenue. How is Houston one of the top 5 revenue teams? I know the city of Houston is one of the largest markets, but I live in Houston and the city is mostly apathetic about them. I see more Steeler jerseys here than Texan jerseys, yet I think Pittsburgh is considered lower revenue? The Texans don't really have an big media deals, right? And if it's just on city size, how is Philly a top 5 and Pittsburgh not? The Steeler fan base has got to be way stronger than Philly?

bdaddy, it's all about the size of the city. Just think about it this way...if every person in the entire city of Jacksonville bought one piece of Jaguars merchandise, only one in five people in Atlanta would need to buy Falcons' gear to match (and actually) pass their sales numbers. When you take that into account and include every aspect (TV, radio, etc.), then you can see why even if a small market team is beloved by their fans, they will normally never be as lucrative as a crappy team in an apathetic big city.

In addition, the stadium deals really matter. The Tampa Bay Bucs under Hugh Culverhouse were very profitable because of the amount of money he made whenever the stadium was used by anyone else. There is also the luxury boxes, parking, and advertising.

bdaddy, it's all about the size of the city. I'm not sure I buy this. Not that having more population close by doesn't help but then why has the NFL failed in Los Angeles twice? People in LA have no compunctions about putting brand names on their clothes and the population is several multiples of most other NFL markets. (Ruh roh, did I just call out Joe88?)